Rediff.com takes a look at the major aviation disasters of the year.
Air Carnival can make quick progress by stepping into the space that SpiceJet has left empty.
Six of these aircraft are currently on lease to Etihad Airways, set to start returning to Jetair's fleet in June
Air Deccan, India's first low-cost airline that made flying affordable for the middle class, is relaunching its operations from December 23.
There is enough room for growth in smaller Indian towns as per US and European aircraft manufacturers
Regional connectivity will bring development to tier-2 and tier-3 cities which are becoming "growth engines", Prime Minister Narendra Modi said while inaugurating the first flight under UDAN.
Pilots will strictly go by the roster and perform all "stabilised approach
A Special Court for Economic Offences has ordered summons to be issued against him over dues from his Kingfisher Airlines to the I-T Dept.
Showing keenness on a general consensus on the issue of stopping forceful religious conversion, BJP President Amit Shah said a bill can be brought in parliament for the purpose if "so called" secular parties extend support.
A UN team had visited the Patna airport and expressed concerns.
An Indonesian airliner carrying 54 people went missing on Sunday after losing contact with ground control during a short flight in bad weather in the country's mountainous easternmost province of Papua, officials said.
The underlying tone of a call for separate Mumbai city is always seen as a class war and a linguistic war, says Neeta Kolhatkar
The move will help Jet Airways strengthen its subsidiary JetLite's performance.
The apex court asked the government to get back by March 9 about the policy.
The airline has also inked a deal to take 12 A320s from Singapore's Tiger Airways on lease.
'IndiGo 2018 is a harsh, ultra-lean, mean, zero asset, fighting machine with aspirations of taking on the global long-haul low-cost market.'
Air travel penetration in India remains small in global terms, with 0.04 annual trips per capita against 0.3 in China and more than two in the United States.
The government had constituted a one-man probe panel to look into Walmart's lobbying activities, after a political furore over the issue late last year.
As fliers find themselves spoilt for choice, airlines are looking at ways in which to position themselves distinctively.
A Mumbai-Delhi air ticket is now available upwards of Rs 3,700 for next day travel on all airlines.
'The Modi government has been taking credit for improvement in respect of the ease of doing business in India.' 'But when I look at the scams I cannot help feeling that it is too easy to do business with banks in India, if one is a Harshad Mehta, Vijay Mallya or Nirav Modi and their tribe,' says former Union home secretary Madhav Godbole.
At the height of its troubles and desperate to mop up cash to fly the next day, SpiceJet was offering ridiculously high deposit incentives to travel agents and online portals -- incentives it could ill afford.
Let Air India - that anyway flies very limited international routes, often bleeding profusely and makes huge losses on trunk routes - do this national service, says Anjuli Bhargava.
Months after take off, Durgapur airport in West Bengal struggles to stay afloat
The government will take necessary action on lobbying by Walmart to enter India if US authorities come out with "something tangible" on this matter, but a probe here could not substantiate allegations against the global retail giant, Corporate Affairs Minister Sachin Pilot says.
Domestic airports across the country are bursting at the seams. And new ones are stuck.
Captain Indu Nair, joined a private airline after her tenure as a pilot in the Indian Air Force ended five years ago. Among the first batches of women pilots in the IAF, she flew during the Kargil conflict. As a commercial airline pilot, one of her best experiences, she says, is when she takes off with an all woman crew - in the cockpit and the cabin.
'It's like your own private Boeing 747 which you can fly yourself. This concept brings the aeroplane closer to passengers and opens the cockpit to everyone.'
'There has to be an 18-month transition.' 'But if the government had some prior knowledge that the high value notes were being used for an imminent terrorist activity in the country, then we have to accept the step.'
The HC also offered a ray of hope to the hundreds of employees of UB-Group owned now-grounded Kingfisher Airlines, who have not been paid monthly salaries for over a year now.
The national carrier's market share has declined from a near-monopoly to 16.6 per cent as of September 2014.
The future certainly looks good for Bangalore.
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